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CPAN Blog: Do we really need to think about pro-poorest growth (PP²G)?

Written by Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi, Research Officer at Overseas Development Institute.  In a recent speech at the Bond conference, a meeting of UK organizations working in international development,...

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CPAN Blog: Who will be paying to get to zero extreme poverty? Reflections on...

Meeting the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) – i.e. getting to zero extreme poverty everywhere by 2030, is not going to be easy, nor cheap. Business as usual won’t do, and doing things...

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CPAN Blog: Presentation of the Chronic Poverty Report 2014 at the DAC...

“If you had to identify the three main policies that you consider key in eradicating extreme  poverty, what would they be?” This question was asked to Andrew Shephard, CPAN’s Director, during the...

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Latest News: CPAN at the ‘Financing the Future: Fresh perspectives on global...

Last 17-18 March, the Development Progress Program at ODI held the ‘Financing the Future: Fresh perspectives on global development' conference at Accra, Ghana. At this event, ODI gathered policy...

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Latest News: “Wage labor, agriculture-based economics and pathways out of...

Investing strongly in smallholder agriculture and in policies to improve the quality as well as the number of jobs created is one of the core three policies identified in the 2014 Chronic Poverty...

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Latest News: CPAN was awarded a grant in the 2013-14 ESRC/DFID Fund for...

CPAN is honored to announce the awarding of the ESRC/DFID Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research for a project on “Understanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and...

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Latest News: CPAN contributing to the European Report on Development 2015:...

On the 4th of May, Neven Mimica, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, officially launched the European Report on Development 2015 in Brussels. This 2015 edition of the report...

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Latest News: CPAN at the UNDESA Expert Group Meeting "Strengthening Social...

On 19 and 20 May, Andrew Shepherd, participated in the Expert Group Meeting at UNDESA, in New York at United Nations Headquarters. The aim of the meeting was to provide concrete, evidence-based...

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Latest News: CPAN at UNDESA-DSPD Expert Group Meeting on “Implementation of...

In preparations for the 70th UN General Assembly, UNDESA-DSPD organised an Expert Group Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of...

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Latest News: USAID Summit on Ending Extreme Poverty

Following President Obama’s February speech USAID’s programme has ending extreme poverty as its top line goal – excellent that the biggest international bi-lateral donor has this as its goal. Andrew...

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Latest News: Research Assistant for Chronic Poverty Research Network

The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network is recruiting 3 research assistants to assist with a systematic review, which will look at the impact and effectiveness of anti-discrimination measures in improving...

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CPAN Blog: Ending Chronic Poverty by 2030: What is Required for Implementation?

Do we ‘still’ have 15 years to 2030? No. We have ‘only’ 15 years. In order to eliminate extreme poverty, we need to take immediate actions to tackle chronic poverty. What are the potential challenges?...

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CPAN Blog: Share the burden! Why unpaid domestic and care work should be top...

On Sunday 6th September in Ankara, Turkey, Chatham House convened an International Policy Forum on ‘Empowering Women for Economic Growth: The smart choice for the G20’.  The forum aims to build on a...

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CPAN Blog: If we are going to achieve the SDGs then shouldn’t the rich...

In some ways, the SDGs are refreshingly ambitious.  Finally the global institutions are getting serious about eradicating poverty.  They even grapple with reducing inequality between and within all...

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CPAN News: How can we eliminate extreme poverty? Public Event 21st October 2015

The first of the new Sustainable Development Goals establishes an ambitious agenda – ‘to end poverty in all its forms everywhere’, by 2030. The World Bank has adopted the ambition of ending extreme...

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CPAN NEWS: Getting to zero poverty by 2030 - an Infographic by CPAN

Many people find themselves trapped in chronic poverty. Others rise above the poverty line only to tumble back beneath it.But, why?With this infographic CPAN  aims to give an overall picture of the...

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CPAN News: Do we need the Sustainable Development Goals? Anna Mdee at the...

This year’s Battle of Ideas Festival has seen the participation of Anna Mdee, CPAN Research Fellow. Anna participated in the debate ‘Do we need the Sustainable Development goals?’ taking place Saturday...

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Resilience: tools, measurement & application –Workshop hosted by USAID...

Everyone is talking about “resilience”, but what does that mean for development and humanitarian investments? On 14-15 October USAID Regional Development Mission in Asia hosted the conference...

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Who is sitting at the table and what is on the menu? The G20 Summit in...

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers, once wrote Oscar Wilde. I should have remembered these words as I wished to find a good angle to write about the coming G20 Summit in Antalya...

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CPAN News: Upcoming conference on Pro-poorest Growth

The Asian Development Bank and the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network are pleased to announce the conference Incorporating Pro-poorest Growth in the SDGs: Moving beyond the MDGs. ADB Headquarters,...

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